# Amazon Linux kernel
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**AL2027 Preview**  
AL2027 is currently available for preview. It is intended for evaluation and testing only and is not recommended for production workloads.

AL2027 ships with a single kernel major version at launch. Similar to AL2023, additional kernel versions will be released annually while AL2027 is under standard support.

**Topics**
+ [Using Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) on AL2027 kernels](kernel-mglru-al2027.md)